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[quote=Anonymous]Former club basketball coach here.  I think you have gotten good advice. I often said that you cannot blame one play or player for a team loss.  And I only had to deal with players blaming another player one time. I overheard it and told both kids what I said earlier.  But I drove that point home by spending part of the next practice looking at the tape of the game with the team.  I pointed out EVERY single mistake that they made - not in an accusatory way, but in teaching/coaching way.  At the end, they saw that they had all made mistakes and that one mistake by one person did not cost the game - it was cumulative mistakes by everyone, inclding the knucklehead coach they had.

What I have told my own kids is that in whatever they do, there will be disappointed.  It is a part of the games we love and a part of life itself.  You win soe and you lose some.  The best players in any sport have short memories. I tis hard to win the next game or have a good next practice if you dwell on a past mistake.  Right after a loss, I always tell my kids "next play, next game."  You get 24 hours to be disapointed.  After that, we move on.  [/quote]

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